Hospital bed



May 22, 1928.

A. R. WEAVER HOSPITAL BED Filed April 8, 1925 MQWMW `50 leg to Patented May 22, 1928,... i

j UNITED STA.-

ALLEN Ramsay WEAVER, or BATEsvILLE, musas HOSPITAL j:aan

' Application med April s,

It essential or important withsome `surgical or other cases that., it he possible to give some slant or inclination to the bed ot t the patient. Sometimes the head should he higher than the foot, and .vice versa. I have observed in hospitals it. to be the practice to use wooden blocks placed vunder the `legs of the bed for. the purpose stated, these 'blocks'bcing about a afoot. high. Such a procedure is open to various and soule serious objections. 'In the tirst place, it: is a.

` cumbersome or ("luinsy method` involving as4 it does,vloose blocks of considerable size, lwhich when not in use may he scattered .15around on 'theloor; the fixed size of the v blocks limits to but one angle; it is dangerous because the bloc-ks vmay he accidently n kicked or knocked .from under the leg, all lowing the hed to fall with scriousnconse- 20 quences; and if there isan'voccasion to more the hed the blocks must he ti rst removed, The ohjcet of myanand tlu--n replaced.

vention is to provide a device which may` be furnished with the 4hed as a part of the original installatiomor which may be used vas an attachment for beds -not so equipped, which when applied to the bed will be a permanent part thereof, 'and which will .overcome all of the objections just noted to the bloc-k device. My invention consists in whatever is described by or is included with-in the terms or scope of the appended claim.-

"-3' Fig. 1 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in section of a bedha'ving its 'legs equipped with ai'rcmbodiment of my invention;

. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line of have legs-thatare sections of'pipel or are tubular-fand a device embodying my invention comprises a metal sleeve, 10, say' of ironv or steel, havinganexternal diameter which snugly fits the interior of the tubular leg, 11, and at its lower end has an out-turned flange, 12,v which engages the bottom of the prevent its passin too far into the leg, and vwhich flange a ords a convenient- In making my invention I' take advantage the fact kthat invalid or hospital beds means of using a set screw, 13, which binds i against the le on the outside, `and thereby.

prevents acci ental separation of the sleeve 1926. Serial No. 100,675.

and leg. Said sleeve' is of lsubstantial length, say three or four inches long, so

that itmay have a' good side bearing against the-leg, and assure'its being `kept in a straigl'lt condition. screw thread for engagement by external Said sleeve has internal` thread of a long screw, 14, preferably made about. eighteen inches long, Vand the screw at its lower end has a handle, l5, whlch may be an annular enlargement or flange on the screw of 'sufficient` diameter, land of such shape, that it may he readily grasped by the hand for revolving the screw to more itup or-down on its threaded connection willi four legs ot the hed. When the bed is to be in a perfectly `horizontal position, the screws being adjusted as far as they will go into thclegs, the appearance of the bed will he no different, from that oi a bed ithordinary legs. Y

i One of the in'iportant. advantages of my'` invention compared with the block contrivanee to which I have referred, is that it is impossible to lower the hed suddenly and violently the entire` distance equal to the height. etithe blocks, hutof necessity the preferably has a caster is understoodthat one of my devices applied to each of the lowering of the bed'nulst he done gradually and gently, and therefore, comfortto the patient as possible'.

What I claim is:

A leg'adjusting` attachment for invalid or hospital beds` comprising van internally threaded sleeve adapted to snugly tit the interior of a bed leg, a screw of substantial length engaging thel threads in said sleeve, said sleeve having a cup-shape flange adapted to engage the bottom of said leg and a set screw passing through such flange with as much and adapted to engage r. said leg to secure said sleeve to said leg. l Y

In testimony whereof :I hereunto atlix my signature. ALLEN R. WEAVER. 

